Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies (LACES)
Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies (LACES)
Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies (LACES)
Literary and Cultural Eighteenth-Century Studies» (LACES) is an interdisciplinary research group with interests in the connections between literature and cultural history in Europe (with an emphasis on Britain, France, Italy, and Scandinavia) in the long eighteenth century.
Scholars in the group are involved in individual and collaborative projects on, for example:
- Literary and cultural representations of European lotteries
- Theatre history
- Transnational histories of the novel (translation, appropriation, adaptation)
- Periodical studies
- Book history and print culture
- Digital archives
The group consists of scholars from the sections of English, French, Scandinavian, and comparative literature. It builds on the long tradition of eighteenth-century studies at NTNU in Trondheim. An important foundation was the research project Frihetens århundre which was established in 1996 by Knut Ove Eliassen, Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg and Knut Stene-Johansen. In 2006 the project evolved with the NFR-financed project Shadows of the Enlightenment, led by Eliassen and Fauskevåg, and the culture for eighteenth-century studies was subsequently developed through the «spearhead» project Enlightenment News: Periodical Publication, Newspapers and the Digital Archive from 2014 to 2018, led by Paul Goring.
LACES is led by Marius Warholm Haugen and Paul Goring.
Activities
Up-coming activities
January 2022: Start-up of the project The Invention of the Lottery Fantasy: A Cultural, Transnational, and Transmedial History of European Lotteries (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal, financed by RNC.)
Previous activities
Speculation, Gambling, and Class in European Literature and Culture (1650-1850), 27 November 2019.
LACES start-up workshop, Oxford, 16 May 2019.
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Members
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Siv Gøril Brandtzæg Associate Professor
+47-73596539 +47-92460080 siv.brandtzag@ntnu.no Department of Language and Literature -
Knut Ove Eliassen Professor
+47-73596418 +47-46818426 knut.eliassen@ntnu.no Department of Language and Literature -
Trude Kolderup Førsteamanuensis
+47-73596505 +47-93483794 trude.kolderup@ntnu.no Department of Language and Literature -
Johanne Kristiansen Associate Professor
+47-73591957 johanne.kristiansen@ntnu.no Department of Language and Literature -
Eli Løfaldli Professor, Head of Division of Literature and Cultural History
+47-73598233 eli.lofaldli@ntnu.no Department of Language and Literature -
Gerd Karin Omdal Assistant Professor
+47-73596427 gerd.omdal@ntnu.no Department of Language and Literature